Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious that one of Ethiopia's greatest chieftains, Ras Mulugheta, was entrenched there in force. Sprawling sidewise to the Italian advance, Amba Aradam was of two parts: a jagged ridge known to the Italians as "The Herringbone" and, at the extreme right, a flat-topped peak called "The Priest's Hat." All the land at its base was known as the Enderta. Through the same telescope, when the clouds cleared, could be seen Alaji, another mountain about 30 miles further on. These two peaks were main pegs in Ethiopia's defense. At 8 a. m., with...
Mendel had failed as a parish priest because he could not bear to go near a sick or suffering person. At the monastery he did better. Breeders already knew that the characteristics of offspring were not simple mixtures of parental features, but they did not know why. Working with garden peas, Mendel found that when he crossed a tall pea with a dwarf, all the first generation were tall. In the second generation (self-fertilized) there were three times as many tall plants as dwarfs, and none of intermediate stature. From this and a mass of other results which made...
...Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come to Washington, I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House, with clerical garb and all the silver in your pockets which you got by speculating in Wall Street. . . ." Said the Radio-Priest: "I'll be on the Capitol steps at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning...
...came to pass that there was great strife abroad in all the land of the free. For lo! from out the far-off land of the royal oak hast come the voice of the priest, crying, "Wherefore hast thou deceived thy people? Wherefore hast thou removed the names from the petition, O thou servant of the money changers?" And him that he revileth; him who representeth in honor in the city of the father of all the land hath been most wroth. His countenance hath fallen, and his anger hath kindled within him, and his dignity hath left him. Wherefore...
With the convent room full of noise and confusion, nuns and the local priests were obliged at times to leave it to rest. But the bespectacled old German-born Capuchin never stopped exorcising. For protection Father Theophilus, by special permission, wore a pyx containing the Blessed Sacrament. "Horrible excrements, obviously preternatural in their volume and filth, were ejected by the possessed woman, as the devils' endeavored to hit the Blessed Sacrament (although they always missed It)." When the priest approached with a relic of the True Cross concealed under his cassock, there were howls: "I cannot bear that...